Ok, nevermind. I guess we’ll just do nothing. 🙄

Down 3.79% today, but that might be due to a report of another month of falling sales in Europe.

The judge making this determination is an idiot.

The judge hasn’t ruled on the piracy question yet. The only thing that the judge has ruled on is, if you legally own a copy of a book, then you can use it for a variety of purposes, including training an AI.

“But they didn’t own the books!”

Right. That’s the part that’s still going to trial.

Right, and that’s the, “but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works,” part that’s still up in the air.

How long before weird or dangerous incidents start to happen?

Well…

one gaggle of Tesla influencers was dropped off directly in an intersection

Obligatory Technology Connections video about dehumidifiers. Hint: You might be using it wrong.

When I lived right off the water

Except that one. That one was probably being used right. But, [ gestures to everyone else ] y’all might learn something from the video and save yourselves a ton of money in otherwise wasted energy.

That I can agree with. But I think it’s just inevitable growing pains. Free and open instances will, over time, shut down because they’re obviously unsustainable, so they won’t be sustained.

As they do, people will be left searching for instances to move to, and more and more, they’ll find that free instances just aren’t an available.

Let’s get rid of open registration instances

How?

Nobody is stopping any of your bullet points from happening. Those are all options today. Any one of those groups can spin up an instance and nobody is going to stop them. Some already have

But isn’t the idea of forcing someone to (not) run their own server however they want antithetical to the whole concept of the fediverse?

You can defederate your personal server from open registration servers if you want. But you can’t “get rid of open registration instances.” That’s just stupid.

That’s a decision for each server admin to decide for themselves. This particular admin has apparently decided that $5000/mo is worth it to them to run a server without ever asking people to pitch in, which I find absolutely bizarre, but whatever.

They can go a long way towards reducing that cost themselves by… asking their users to pitch in. Some people will pitch in, and reduce their out of pocket expenses. Others will leave, further reducing their out of pocket expenses.

If they haven’t done the bare minimum that they can do to help themselves, then this isn’t a problem for the broader fediverse community to solve.

And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.

Ok? What on earth would be the motivation to let these people keep spending your money instead of letting them go spend someone else’s?

ETA: Especially if their reason for leaving is that you had the audacity to ask them to pitch in for the cost of the resources that they’re using. Oh, the humanity.

He paid some Indian guys in fiver to hold up a sign that said something like “death to Jews” or something like that. He didn’t think they would actually do it

Doesn’t matter if he thought they would do it. Just coming up with the idea is enough to make it clear that he’s a tasteless piece of garbage, and that NOBODY should be parading him around as someone to emulate.

People make mistakes. Some people learn from their mistakes. Some people learn from other’s mistakes. Some mistakes are so egregious, reflecting such abysmally poor judgement, that they should never be lived down, even if for no other reason than to serve as a warning, so that others may learn.

That dip shit has made a lot of those mistakes. He shouldn’t be in the public eye anymore. He should be a productive member of society working as an assistant to the junior manager at an obscure toilet paper company.

and he of course he laughed when they sent back the video of them dancing and holding up the sign.

You left out the part where he then published it for all of his followers.

In between having the idea that no respectable human being should ever have, to the point that he clicked “Publish” to send the video out to everyone, he had soooooo many opportunities for self reflection and a realization that that was a really fucking bad idea. Yet, he did it anyway.

“The truth will set you free come back to bite you in the ass.”

Those are definitely not people that ever learned to drive a manual transmission.

Please allow me this opportunity to jump in and complain about the minority, but not insignificant number, of people that don’t seem to be aware that that is even an option (just taking your foot off of the gas/accelerator to slowly decelerate).

Every couple weeks or so I seem to find myself behind someone that’s always either accelerating, or braking, with the brake lights repeatedly flashing on momentarily for no apparent reason. It’s like they realize that they’re going just a little faster than they want, and definitely don’t want to accelerate any more, so the only thing they know to do is hit the brake, instead of just taking their foot off of the accelerator. So they’ve hit the brake and now they’re going too slow, so foot moves off the brake and back to the accelerator. Rinse, lather, repeat.

End rant. Thank you for this opportunity to vent.

I’ve been seeing these posts in various communities for at least a couple weeks. I’ve seen some communities ban the user, but then a different user starts doing it. No idea what’s going on or what the point is.

For those that haven’t seen these posts and want to watch for them (if just for curiosity), sort by “New” occasionally. They get downvoted and/or deleted by mods pretty quickly, so they’re not likely to show up in most other sorts.

two former VW engineers

Not CEOs

https://archive.ph/3kynW

https://youtu.be/urNFQw8VIvA

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Who does he think he’s talking to?

“Guys! Guys! Guys! I’ve got a brilliant idea!” Elon Musk to the Space X Engineers.